Last week I was driving home from a mates place
Bit of a long journey and I was on the A40 just coming up to Hanger Lane.

I was in the fast lane 10mph over the speed limit and I noticed a car zooming up behind me. Then I noticed the stencil on the front.

"crap" I though, having only recently topped up my herb collection that night. I slowed down and pulled into the 1st lane, the cop car pulled along side me. As I started to slow down even further I found myself unclenching, they'd caught me, nothing else to do now but be searched and arrested. Well, at least I'd won £15 off my mates playing poker.

Just then, I heard a noise, the sound of a tiny engine being gunned for all it's worth. The sound got louder and louder and woosh! Little Boy racer charges past us both doing umpteen miles over the speed limit. They never noticed the police car, until it turned it's blue lights on.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 6 May 2011, 15:06, 3 replies)

Hanger Lane..

I can remember seeing on the map the "Hanger Lane Gyratory System".

"Fuck me" I thought "This must be one on London's unsung wonders"

Then I got there and found it's a fucking roundabout with delusions of grandeur.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 May 2011, 15:19, closed)

I love the name
"Hanger Lane Gyratory System". It always makes me think of a middle-aged woman trying to do a hula-dance after one too many glasses of sherry.
God only knows why. Sometimes my imagination scares me.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 6 May 2011, 15:58, closed)

I too love the term Hanger Lane Gyratory System
Though my fancy was initially more akin with Legless' vision. Someone should totally build one.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 May 2011, 16:21, closed)

Come to Leeds! Witness the 9th wonder* that is Armley Gyratory.
*may be every bit as shit as it sounds**.
**but it is handy for the prison.
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Fri 6 May 2011, 18:25, closed)

There's one at Thurnbury too.
Just near the multiplex.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 6 May 2011, 18:44, closed)

And then???
Because in this part of the world, the cops would book you and let the other guy zoom off. One in the hand and all that.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 6 May 2011, 17:03, closed)

and then the pokiuce chased down the boy racer and let me go.
I was as much suprised as you.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 9 May 2011, 9:50, closed)